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Displacing the Judiciary: Customary Law and the Threat of a Defensive Tribal Council: A Book Review of Raymond D. Austine, Navajo Courts and Navajo Common Law: A Tradition of Tribal Self-Goverance (2009)

Displacing the Judiciary: Customary Law and the Threat of a Defensive Tribal Council is a brief article framed as a book review of RAYMOND D. AUSTIN, NAVAJO COURTS AND NAVAJO COMMON LAW: A TRADITION OF TRIBAL SELF-GOVERNANCE (2009). Raymond Austin is a former Justice of the Navajo Supreme Court and his book is an important contribution to Indian law and tribal law scholarship that should be of interest to general readers. Austin shows the origins of Navajo customary law norms and how the Navajo court system has incorporated those norms into Navajo common law. Although the majority of the article is dedicated to reviewing NAVAJO COURTS AND NAVAJO COMMON LAW, I also discuss an ongoing tribal power struggle and the related effort of the Navajo Tribal Council to block the Navajo courts from using customary law.

Date posted: April 19, 2010
; Last revised: April 3, 2011

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Rosser, Ezra, Displacing the Judiciary: Customary Law and the Threat of a Defensive Tribal Council: A Book Review of Raymond D. Austine, Navajo Courts and Navajo Common Law: A Tradition of Tribal Self-Goverance (2009) (March 2011). America Indian Law Review, Vol. 34, p. 379, 2011; American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2010-08. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1591153